Behold the Lord High Executioner

[UpInArms]

http://www.berkshireeagle.com/Stories/0,1413,101~6267~1662245,00.html

The Bush administration is so bent on juicing up the number of state- sponsored executions in the United States that apparently it is attempting to nationalize capital punishment. Federal death-penalty law is so loosely written -- 60 different crimes can land a man or woman on federal death row -- that Attorney General John Ashcroft has been emboldened to yank cases out of the hands of local district attorneys and drag suspects into federal court and charge them with capital crimes. Most repugnant of all, Mr. Ashcroft is following this course in states like Massachusetts where there is no death penalty.

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This campaign is another example of a nominally pro-states'-rights administration sending the legal tanks into states that are independent enough to set policies at odds with the administration's. Nationalizing the death penalty is not only reckless in risking possibly innocent lives -- with DNA evidence pointing up more and more instances of the imperfection of the U.S. criminal-justice system -- but it also exposes purported states'- rights true believers Ashcroft and Bush as hypocrites.

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[Brucey]

1. These guys have no shame, no shame at all.

Remember in a debate with Gore how Chimpy sat up and nearly drooled with glee when he shouted that prisoners in Texas soon would be DEAD! He was nearly having an orgasm thinking about the death of others. Notice how during the invasion of Iraq the Chimpy has never had a sad or remorseful word or look on his face. This guy is either retarded or a psychopath. Oh, or he could simply be a child who is so egocentric and self-centered that he can't cognitively understand anything outside his own limited and juvenile needs and beliefs. What a piece of work.